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Is Square down right now?

No, it’s up.

Square appears to be up and running normally.

checked responded in 231msHTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, Square has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~260 ms. The most recent outage began 2026-08-04 20:54 UTC and lasted 7h 48m (severity: degraded).

Square provides in-person card readers, online checkout, and point-of-sale software for small businesses. Its offline mode blurs outages: card readers can keep accepting payments locally while the dashboard, reporting, and settlement are unreachable, so the impact is often on the merchant rather than the customer.

Response time (last 24h)
Last 24hpeak 809 ms
Incident history (last 90 days)
JunJulAug
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  • slow
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  • no reading
DateDurationSeverity
7h 48mDegraded
1h 6mDegraded
1d 8hDegraded
3h 11mDegraded
7d 1hDegraded
1h 36mDegraded
29mDegraded
Uptime
100.00%
7 days
100.00%
30 days
100.00%
90 days
What to do if Square is down for just you
  • Try a different payment method, since incidents usually hit one card network or local rail rather than all of them.
  • Check whether the failure is at checkout or at settlement, because the two run on separate systems.
  • Look for elevated decline rates in your dashboard rather than outright errors, which is how most payment incidents first appear.
  • Do not retry a charge repeatedly, as duplicate attempts can succeed later and produce double billing.
Frequently asked questions
Is Square down right now?
Square appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-08-05 04:42 UTC (3 minutes ago).
When was Square's last outage?
The most recent outage began 2026-08-04 20:54 UTC and lasted 7h 48m (severity: degraded).
What should I do if Square is down for me?
Try a different payment method, since incidents usually hit one card network or local rail rather than all of them. Check whether the failure is at checkout or at settlement, because the two run on separate systems. Look for elevated decline rates in your dashboard rather than outright errors, which is how most payment incidents first appear. Do not retry a charge repeatedly, as duplicate attempts can succeed later and produce double billing.
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